No matter how grounded you are, and no matter how fervently you believe that there is enough PR work out there for everybody, it’s difficult to keep your head up when your friends' careers seem to be accelerating faster than yours - especially if they too are solo PR pros, and if you work in the same city.

We all know that envy is not healthy, but it happens — even to the most emotionally evolved of us. So what do you do? How do you pull yourself out of the funk and stay motivated?